Ishigami Nozomi Goes From a First Win to the Climax of Duel Masters Play’s Nijisanji Story
Days into the card game, the Nijisanji streamer played the collab’s rental deck and fully voiced story chapters through a stream of nearly four hours and forty minutes.
NIJISANJI — Ishigami Nozomi, a Nijisanji streamer who had picked up Duel Masters Play only days earlier, worked her way through the card game’s Nijisanji collab story on Monday, going from an early win of the evening to the story’s closing chapters over a stream of nearly four hours and forty minutes.
She opened by trying the collab’s rental deck, a red deck built around a card of herself, and talked through each play aloud, asking chat when to send a card to the mana zone and when to hold back an attack. A win under the turn timer, which she said she had never had to race before, came in the first hour. An advanced-level duel against the character Lize Helesta followed; Ishigami won it with fast attacks, and the win earned her a card-pack ticket and, as she put it, let her read the story at last.
“Duel Masters Play is fun. What are you going to do, getting me to release this much dopamine?” — Ishigami Nozomi, after a late-night win
The story is fully voiced by Nijisanji talents, and she read it in order. Lize Helesta arrived in the game’s Duel Masters City and brought a downpour with her. Maimoto Keisuke stepped out of a giant rock-like creature, and Ishigami beat him in a duel, then took the first win in a three-on-three team battle. The chapters turned on a duel between Suzuhara Lulu and Lize Helesta that split two overlapping worlds, and on a cloud giant that cleared the rain. Ishigami said she wanted to see the ending, and that the people behind the collab clearly knew her deck and her character well.
After the story she took on a legend-rank duel for a title, won it close to 1 a.m. and received a Suzuhara Lulu card. She said the game was easy to follow for a beginner and thanked the developers. Viewers sent 27 Super Chats, many of them deck advice, and one shared a deck list they had posted online. She said she would climb the tower in the city to learn more about its world, and may adjust her own deck as she gets used to it.
She also thanked viewers who bought birthday support ads ahead of her birthday on Oct. 29.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.